INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Polish authorities have arrested nine members of an alleged Russian spy ring who are suspected of planning acts of sabotage throughout
Europe, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday."We currently have nine suspects detained and indicted, who have been directly implicated in
the name of Russian [intelligence] services in acts of sabotage in Poland," Tusk told the broadcaster TVN24."These are Ukrainian,
"beatings, arson, and attempted arson," according to Tusk, who said the Russian plots concern not just Poland, but also Lithuania, Latvia,
well as to an IKEA store in Lithuania.Tusk said a public information campaign on the issue would follow in the days ahead
additional 100 million zlotys ($25 million) to civil and military counter-espionage services amid alleged destabilizing activities from
Moscow.In recent weeks, Warsaw arrested a man suspected of helping Russian intelligence services prepare an attack on Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as a Belarusian citizen suspected of sponsoring a March attack on Leonid Volkov, a close ally of late Russian
opposition activist Alexei Navalny.Warsaw also arrested two Polish citizens who were responsible for that attack.
